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Chapter 13Expressed Emotion

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Expressed Emotion

Emotions are expressed on the face, from the body and the intonation of the voice. Is this non-verbal

language of emotion universal?

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Nonverbal Communication

Most of us are good at deciphering emotions thorough non-verbal communication. In a crowd of faces a single angry face will “pop out” faster than a

single happy face (Fox et al. 2000).

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Gender, Emotion, and Nonverbal Behavior

Women are much better at discerning nonverbal emotions then men. When shown sad, happy and

scary film clips women expressed emotions more than men.

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Detecting and Computing Emotion

Most people find it difficult to detect deceiving emotion. Even trained professionals like police officers,

psychiatrists, judges, and polygraphists detected deceiving emotions 54% of the time.

Which of Paul Ekman smile is genuine?

Dr. Paul Elkm

an, University of California at San Francisco

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Hindu Dance

In classical Hindu dance, the body is trained to effectively convey 10 different emotions.

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Culture and Emotional Expression

When culturally diverse people were shown basic facial expressions, they did pretty well at recognizing

them (Ekman & Matsumoto, 1989).

Elkman &

Matsum

oto, Japanese and Caucasian Facial Expression of Em

otion

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Emotions are Adaptive

Darwin speculated that our ancestors

communicated with facial expression in the absence of language.

Nonverbal facial expression led to their

survival.

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

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Analyzing Emotion

Analysis of emotions is carried out on different levels.

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The Effects of Facial Expression

If facial expressions are manipulated, like furrowingbrows, people feel sad while looking at sad pictures.

Attaching two golf tee to the face and making their tips touch makes furrow on the forehead.

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